Tories lovin’ Boris lovin’ it

Bozza has launched a review of the City of London’s future as the world’s leading financial centre. This must be manna for the Tories – get all the bigwigs on board, “align with” existing Labour initiatives and for an issue that will get...

Diary of a nobody

I had forgotten that Mr Pooter was based somewhere in Holloway. And you can read the whole book online.

Multitasking = damaging?

Given that I try and have things like email alerts turned off when I am in the office, I guess I have to agree with a lot of the thinking around multi-tasking in this article. I need focused time to work on “thinking” problems; operational issues tend to...

Fry on the BBC

Stephen Fry talks movingly about why the BBC is important. He could well be right. I particularly enjoyed this line:Radio 4 in particular is radically reinvented every five years or so, fortunately with no result whatever.

Uni league tables

Lovely rant from a Cantab in El Reg (Oxford came top). I wonder why this years’ result is important? Surely you only have bragging rights if your university was the best the year you graduated? Sadly, the table has only been going for 15 years, so I can’t...